Може да вземеш парите... но не можеш да избягаш! Два милиона евро кеш. Няма къде да избягаш. Ще поемеш ли риска? Животът на закъсалия бизнесмен Кевин Тайлър се разпада: месеци наред той подготвя голяма сделка в Германия, но в последния момент партньорите му се оттеглят. Останал на сухо, на Тайлър не му се прибира в родната Англия, където го очаква пълен фалит. На всичкото отгоре, заради дублирани места, Кевин е свален от последния полет за деня и се налага да изчака отминаването на разразилата се буря до сутринта. Изглежда, че късметът напълно го е изоставил. А може би не... В тоалетната на летището намира чанта, пълна ... |
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В червено кану близо до Уестпорт, Кънетикът, лежи жена с прерязано гърло. Убитата е Хелън Кармайкъл, оперативен директор на най-големия хеджфонд в света. Две години по-рано Нора Карлтън напуска Федералната прокуратура на щата Ню Йорк, за да стане юридически съветник на фонда. Тя харесва новите си колеги и особено Хелън, която ѝ възлага тайно разследване за търговия с вътрешна информация. След убийството Нора се оказва единствената заподозряна. Всички улики сочат към нея. Двамата с верния ѝ приятел агент Бени Дугън трябва да намерят истинския извършител, преди тя да бъде арестувана. Скоро наяве излизат тайни, ... |
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Първа книга от поредица "Сигма" от Джеймс Ролинс. ... Убар, изгубен град в пясъците на пустинята, крие нещо поразително. В пясъците на арабската пустиня дреме сила с грандиозна мощ! В този най-нов поход на въображението си Джеймс Ролинс омесва в едно сериозна наука и светкавично действие, което гони читателя през страниците, потапяйки го в тайнствените пясъци на Арабския полуостров. Преди двайсет години богат британски финансист изчезва близо до Убар, легендарния изгубен град, погребан под пясъците на Оман. Сега една научна експедиция, водена от дъщерята на финансиста, се готви да разбули тайните на пустинята. ... |
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Influential and innovative, James Joyce (1882 - 1941) led the vanguard of 20th-century fiction. Sooner or later, most undergraduates encounter him, and many scholars devote their entire careers to his exuberantly eloquent prose. Joyce's experimental use of language and stream-of-consciousness techniques continues to captivate modern readers and writers, and this anthology offers a first-rate introduction to the Irish author's fiction and poetry. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", Joyce's coming-of-age novel, appears here in its entirety. Readers will also find the complete texts of the ... |
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Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results. No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet" sees recently qualified vet James Herriot firmly ensconced in the sleepy Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and acclimatized to life with his unpredictable colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon. But veterinary practice in the 1930s was never going to be easy, and there are challenges on the horizon, from persuading his clients to let him use his "modern" equipment, to becoming an uncle to a pig called Nugent. Throw in his first encounters with Helen, the beautiful daughter of a local farmer, ... |
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A fun, highly illustrated guide to what genes and DNA are, and how they work. What are genes? What do they do? How did DNA make everything? Budding scientists, meet genes and DNA, the building blocks of all life on Earth. Colourful illustrations, plenty of flaps, and lots of silliness, make the hard science of genetics fun for kids who want to know more. Illustrated by Tim Bradford. ... |
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Controversial, scandalous, erudite and funny, Ulysses is undisputedly a landmark of twentieth-century modernism. It charts one day - 16th June 1904 - in the lives of three inhabitants of Dublin: the advertising salesman Leopold Bloom, the artist Stephen Dedalus and Bloom's wife Molly. Their peregrinations, thoughts and encounters form the basis of the narrative, which becomes a celebration of all human experience through the lives of specific individuals in a specific place at a specific time. Ulysses is both an experimental novel and a book intimately concerned with the events of modern life. A lively repository of ... |
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James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience. ... |
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Adaptation and activities by Janet Borsbey and Ruth Swan. ... "After I had accepted the position and agreed to his condition, I had two or three very bad days. I was full of doubts, sure I had made a terrible mistake. I was in this state of mind as I sat in the uncomfortable coach which was taking me to my new home." Through the book A young woman starts her first job as a governess in charge of two young orphans, Miles and Flora, at a country house called Bly. The children are beautiful and well-behaved, but are they too good to be true? When the governess starts to experience strange visions, she suspects ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... First published in 1914, "Dubliners" depicts middle-class Catholic life in Dublin at the start of the twentieth century. Themes within the stories include the disappointments of childhood, the frustrations of adolescence, and the importance of sexual awakening. James Joyce was twenty-five years old when he wrote this collection of short stories, among which "The Dead" is probably the most famous. Considered at the time as a literary experiment, "Dubliners" contains moments of joy, fear, grief, love and loss, which combine to ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition of Henry James's classic ghost stories features an afterword by bestselling author Kate Mosse OBE. A young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country house. Isolated and inexperienced, she is at first charmed by the children - but gradually suspects that they may not be as innocent as they seem. ... |
